“Only male IS pilot Ichika trains at all-girls academy with childhood friends and international rivals under sister's guidance.”
Infinite Stratos
IS 〈インフィニット・ストラトス〉
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Synopsis
Only male IS pilot Ichika trains at all-girls academy with childhood friends and international rivals under sister's guidance.
An exoskeleton weapon engineered by Japan, Infinite Stratos (IS) can be piloted only by women. Its power and combat prowess are so immense that an international treaty has been signed banning its use as a military asset. When it is discovered that 15-year-old Ichika Orimura is the only male capable of steering an IS, he is forcibly enrolled in the Infinite Stratos Academy: an all-female boarding school, the students of which graduate to become IS pilots. At this training school, Ichika is reunited with two of his childhood friends, Houki Shinonono and Lingyin Huang, and befriends Cecilia Alcott, an IS representative from the United Kingdom. Guided by the legendary pilot Chifuyu Orimura—their strict homeroom teacher and Ichika's older sister—Ichika and the girls will need to use everything at their disposal to defend themselves and their academy against the dangers that will arise during the course of their thrilling school life.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 143 sampled reviews
What 143 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.24 · split reception
5.4 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 2.6
↑ 1.39
Running avg · Jan 2011 → Feb 2026
- 7 “One of the few anime that doesn't seem to have to have a HUGE amount of sex appeal in order to be good. Don't get me wrong, I mean with one guy in a school full of girls it's kind of hard....”
- 7 “Well, like the other harem-type animes,it has a clouded ending. In fact the story line was pretty good, except the part that the main character is from the beggining the over-powerd guy. Overall...”
- 10 “This harem anime delivers genuinely surprising moments that left me speechless multiple times, with a solid story and diverse, well-developed characters that stand out from typical harem tropes....”
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2011 – Apr 2011 Winter 2011
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-5602 catalog
Produced by
- Lantis Producer
- Media Factory Producer
- TBS Producer
- Sony Music Communications Producer
- Sakura Create Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor